RIP kitty, whoever you belonged to....

JennyW_2

I just wanted to stop by and thank you all for your lovely posts :A

I think very often about kitty cat as I have to cross the said road on a daily basis and the memories come flooding back it really was a traumatic experience but I'm glad I did what i did.

SmartPricePoster

RIP kitty. I found a dead cat dumped over a fence by the side of a main road. No doubt hit by a car and someone thought they could just off it in the bushes. I took it home and buried it in the garden.

bazster

Pollycat wrote: »

There can be few things worse than calling for a missing cat at the back door, rattling a box of his biscuits, walking round the neighbourhood, putting up posters.
You have saved the owners from that anguish.

Been there, done that, horrible. Hundreds of posters and leaflets, adverts in the local papers, days and nights crawling through undergrowth, trespassing and goodness knows what looking for her.

She eventually came home, filthy dirty, starving and terrified, clearly having been locked in somewhere. But if the worst had happened, I'd want to know.

Whenever we've moved house, the first thing we specify is a cat-friendly location. Estate agents think we're mad.

charlie3090

not quite the same thing but a few years ago where my friend lived there was this poor old cat with a stomach like a football,it was stick thin and could hardly walk with this huge growth,it belonged to someone in the street who was just not bothered.
long story short i stole the cat, went to the vets and lied saying it was a stray near my flat and was happy to pay for treatment.
sadly it was beyond any help the vet could give and they offered to put her to sleep.
i stayed with the cat while the vet did this, i still feel guilty for doing this but i know it was the right thing to do, i cried for days and i didnt even know the cat,what a softie:o
op, you did a really nice thing:T

JennyW_2

SmartPricePoster wrote: »

RIP kitty. I found a dead cat dumped over a fence by the side of a main road. No doubt hit by a car and someone thought they could just off it in the bushes. I took it home and buried it in the garden.

that too was a kind thing to do :A

that god for people like us

JennyW_2

charlie3090 wrote: »

not quite the same thing but a few years ago where my friend lived there was this poor old cat with a stomach like a football,it was stick thin and could hardly walk with this huge growth,it belonged to someone in the street who was just not bothered.
long story short i stole the cat, went to the vets and lied saying it was a stray near my flat and was happy to pay for treatment.
sadly it was beyond any help the vet could give and they offered to put her to sleep.
i stayed with the cat while the vet did this, i still feel guilty for doing this but i know it was the right thing to do, i cried for days and i didnt even know the cat,what a softie:o
op, you did a really nice thing:T

oh what a brave and thoughtful thing you did :A

don't ever feel guilty for what you did. You put this poor cat out of it's misery and pain.

YORKSHIRELASS

Its nearly 10 years since a man knocked on my door and asked if we knew who owned a small black cat as it had just run out in front of his car and it had been killed instantly. It was our much loved pet and I was devastated. I was so grateful to that man as he brought the cat into the garden and covered it with a blanket. I had to wait until my husband came home so that we could tell the kids together and give the cat a proper burial.

I will always be grateful to that mans kindness. I shudder to think what would have happened if he had just left our cat lying at the side of the road.

mac.d

Big hugs to Jenny and everyone else who has ever done anything similar. A lot of people just don't give a damn, thankfully there are some though who do have a bit of common decency in them.

Sally_A

Thanks Yorkshire Lass, it's not a situation I've been in, but if I had the misfortune to hit a cat, I would try to find the owner, but would also be cacking it that the owner would want to knock 8 shades out of me for what was to me, an unavoidable accident.

heretolearn_2

I don't think the man was horrible at all. He stopped and was going to take an injured animal to the vet. Then it was too late and for whatever reason he was creeped out by the thought of a dead body in his car. so he's not perfect...but he was going to help the cat.

To be honest I don't think it would have crossed my mind to take a dead cat to the vet to get a chip checked. Now I've read this, yes it's obvious, but I don't think it would have occurred to me. I'd take an injured animal. I'd check a dead one for collar/details etc... but as chips only came in after I stopped owning pets, although I'm of course aware of them, it's not what comes immediately to mind for me.

There's no need to be mean about someone who did stop to help the animal.

Perhaps that man didn't know cats can be chipped? Perhaps he owns completely different sort of animal. Perhaps he thought all that could be done, had been done. Or perhaps he just wasn't thinking about that, in the same way I wouldn't have.

I doubt very much my OH has even heard of pet micro-chipping at all, yet he'd do anything to help a hurt animal. But he simply wouldn't see any point in taking a dead one to a vet...

Glad you got it all sorted out though OP, sad news for the family but it is better to know.